Sydney Hegele
@sydhegele.bsky.social
Author of The Pump (2021) Bird Suit (2024) Bad Kids (2026) @invisibooks.bsky.social
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I had so much fun making this list of amazing short story writers and novelists for @49thshelf.bsky.social
It includes @zoewhittall.bsky.social @mbatiz.bsky.social Chava Rosenfarb Val Bah @sydhegele.bsky.social and more 💗💗📚 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...
It includes @zoewhittall.bsky.social @mbatiz.bsky.social Chava Rosenfarb Val Bah @sydhegele.bsky.social and more 💗💗📚 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...
Incredible Novels by Short Fiction Writers · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
A recommended reading list by the author of A Place for People Like Us (Guernica Editions).
49thshelf.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I had so much fun making this list of amazing short story writers and novelists for @49thshelf.bsky.social
It includes @zoewhittall.bsky.social @mbatiz.bsky.social Chava Rosenfarb Val Bah @sydhegele.bsky.social and more 💗💗📚 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...
It includes @zoewhittall.bsky.social @mbatiz.bsky.social Chava Rosenfarb Val Bah @sydhegele.bsky.social and more 💗💗📚 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...
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New book reviews up. @sydhegele.bsky.social and @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social
I only write reviews for books that I love so don't judge me for my gushy five stars! I'll give 'em out all day if I want to!!!
@invisibooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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I only write reviews for books that I love so don't judge me for my gushy five stars! I'll give 'em out all day if I want to!!!
@invisibooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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Book Reviews
For reviews of Junction Reads’ titles, check out the Homepage. When the beauty of the entire world exists inside the writing we share, the books we read, and that to write, and to read, we ca…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
New book reviews up. @sydhegele.bsky.social and @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social
I only write reviews for books that I love so don't judge me for my gushy five stars! I'll give 'em out all day if I want to!!!
@invisibooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
I only write reviews for books that I love so don't judge me for my gushy five stars! I'll give 'em out all day if I want to!!!
@invisibooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social
junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...
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The 5th protester from the 2023 Gillers has *finally* had her charges dropped.
The Gillers directly lobbied police to charge those protesters, and the production team behind the CBC broadcast helped police carry out the arrests.
Enjoy the longlist celebrations
canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
The Gillers directly lobbied police to charge those protesters, and the production team behind the CBC broadcast helped police carry out the arrests.
Enjoy the longlist celebrations
canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
September 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The 5th protester from the 2023 Gillers has *finally* had her charges dropped.
The Gillers directly lobbied police to charge those protesters, and the production team behind the CBC broadcast helped police carry out the arrests.
Enjoy the longlist celebrations
canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
The Gillers directly lobbied police to charge those protesters, and the production team behind the CBC broadcast helped police carry out the arrests.
Enjoy the longlist celebrations
canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
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📣✨The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the five-book shortlist highlights the scope and stellar quality of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024.
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
July 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
📣✨The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the five-book shortlist highlights the scope and stellar quality of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024.
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
A massive thank you to Natalee Caple, Geoff Ryman, and Lorina Stephens for selecting BIRD SUIT (@invisibooks 2024) as one of five books on the shortlist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Grateful to be alongside Canisia, Nalo, Clayton, and Frankie ❤️
📣✨The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the five-book shortlist highlights the scope and stellar quality of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024.
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
July 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A massive thank you to Natalee Caple, Geoff Ryman, and Lorina Stephens for selecting BIRD SUIT (@invisibooks 2024) as one of five books on the shortlist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Grateful to be alongside Canisia, Nalo, Clayton, and Frankie ❤️
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Blackheart Man has moved from the Sunburst Award longlist to the shortlist! Congratulations to my fellow authors on the list: Frankie Barnet, Sydney Hegele, Canisia Lubrin & Clayton B. Smith locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
2025 Sunburst Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic was announced on June 21, 2025. Mood Swings, Frankie Barnet (McClelland & Stewart) Bird Suit, Sy…
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July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blackheart Man has moved from the Sunburst Award longlist to the shortlist! Congratulations to my fellow authors on the list: Frankie Barnet, Sydney Hegele, Canisia Lubrin & Clayton B. Smith locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
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congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social @sydhegele.bsky.social and all the finalists!
📣✨The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the five-book shortlist highlights the scope and stellar quality of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024.
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
July 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social @sydhegele.bsky.social and all the finalists!
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Five books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic! Huge congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social, Frankie Barnet, Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social, Canisia Lubrin, & Clayton B. Smith!
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#booksky ❤️📚
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#booksky ❤️📚
Five books shortlisted for 2025 Sunburst Award - Quill and Quire
The winner of the $3,000 prize for literature of the fantastic will be named in the fall.
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July 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Five books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic! Huge congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social, Frankie Barnet, Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social, Canisia Lubrin, & Clayton B. Smith!
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#booksky ❤️📚
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#booksky ❤️📚
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NEW PAINTING!
"Real Location"
22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, and coloured pencils on paper.
"Real Location"
22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, and coloured pencils on paper.
July 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
NEW PAINTING!
"Real Location"
22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, and coloured pencils on paper.
"Real Location"
22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, and coloured pencils on paper.
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www.thestar.com/opinion/my-f... Thank you Andrea Robin Skinner and siblings for your candour.Thank you @debdundas.bsky.social and the Star team for your guidance. And @sydhegele.bsky.social let’s talk
My fiction left Alice Munro shaking. Her daughter’s reality did the same to me
I wasn't able to confront my abusers — until now.
www.thestar.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
www.thestar.com/opinion/my-f... Thank you Andrea Robin Skinner and siblings for your candour.Thank you @debdundas.bsky.social and the Star team for your guidance. And @sydhegele.bsky.social let’s talk
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Such a powerful story, Sydney. Thank you for writing it. Words have such power.
For the Star, @lindasvendsen.bsky.social and I share pieces one year after Andrea Skinner's editorial that detailed her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, and revealed that her mother, Alice Munro, stayed with him. Ed. by @debdundas.bsky.social.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Andrea Skinner’s story helped me transform shame into solidarity
I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives
www.thestar.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Such a powerful story, Sydney. Thank you for writing it. Words have such power.
For the Star, @lindasvendsen.bsky.social and I share pieces one year after Andrea Skinner's editorial that detailed her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, and revealed that her mother, Alice Munro, stayed with him. Ed. by @debdundas.bsky.social.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Andrea Skinner’s story helped me transform shame into solidarity
I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives
www.thestar.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
For the Star, @lindasvendsen.bsky.social and I share pieces one year after Andrea Skinner's editorial that detailed her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, and revealed that her mother, Alice Munro, stayed with him. Ed. by @debdundas.bsky.social.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Thank you, Sydney and Andrea www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Andrea Skinner’s story helped me transform shame into solidarity
I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives
www.thestar.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thank you, Sydney and Andrea www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Mahmoud Khalil is free.
June 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Mahmoud Khalil is free.
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✨The Sunburst Society is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the longlist highlights the diversity, quality, and scope of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024. www.sunburstaward.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
✨The Sunburst Society is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the longlist highlights the diversity, quality, and scope of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024. www.sunburstaward.org
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The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is back! Read the longlist for the 2025 award! Then read the books! Big congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social, @robertjsawyer.com, and the rest of the nominees!
💙📚 #booksky #sunburstaward #canlit
💙📚 #booksky #sunburstaward #canlit
✨The Sunburst Society is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the longlist highlights the diversity, quality, and scope of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024. www.sunburstaward.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is back! Read the longlist for the 2025 award! Then read the books! Big congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social, @robertjsawyer.com, and the rest of the nominees!
💙📚 #booksky #sunburstaward #canlit
💙📚 #booksky #sunburstaward #canlit
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Seconded. Kristin has turned me on to some phenomenal books by authors I hadn’t yet read (Sydney Hegele, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, @afsulli.bsky.social, among others.) A trip into the city isn’t complete without stopping in for coffee, a convo, and copping some fun new reads. Little Ghosts is the best.📚💙
It's a beautiful day, you should enjoy it with a new book! Stop by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social and let me suggest your next favourite read. 🧡👻📚
May 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Seconded. Kristin has turned me on to some phenomenal books by authors I hadn’t yet read (Sydney Hegele, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, @afsulli.bsky.social, among others.) A trip into the city isn’t complete without stopping in for coffee, a convo, and copping some fun new reads. Little Ghosts is the best.📚💙
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Now on the EVENT website: Michelle Hardy reviews We Are Already Ghosts by Kit Dobson and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele.
This review was originally published in the print issue of EVENT 53/3
Read it here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/mich...
This review was originally published in the print issue of EVENT 53/3
Read it here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/mich...
Michelle Hardy Reviews Novels from Kit Dobson and Sydney Hegele for EVENT 53/3 - EVENT
For EVENT 53/2, Avery Qurashi reviews two works of fiction from RM Vaughan and an anthology of stories edited by Russell Smith.
www.eventmagazine.ca
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Now on the EVENT website: Michelle Hardy reviews We Are Already Ghosts by Kit Dobson and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele.
This review was originally published in the print issue of EVENT 53/3
Read it here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/mich...
This review was originally published in the print issue of EVENT 53/3
Read it here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/mich...
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At TCAF, I had the opportunity at my event for a public thank you to Toronto Writers Against the War on Gaza, & the No Arms in the Arts campaign. These artists work hard, at no small expense to themselves, to defend the lives of Palestinians, and to insist that arts funding is not also blood money.
June 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
At TCAF, I had the opportunity at my event for a public thank you to Toronto Writers Against the War on Gaza, & the No Arms in the Arts campaign. These artists work hard, at no small expense to themselves, to defend the lives of Palestinians, and to insist that arts funding is not also blood money.
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The National Post is significantly editing Canadian Press copy, without notifying the reader, to push a Zionist perspective and to portray Palestinians as terrorists. It's completely unethical and a breach of basic journalism standards. A new low for The National Post.
A new data analysis finds the National Post quietly modified nearly 200 newswire articles since Oct. 7 to push a pro-Israel narrative.
Jason Toney from @cjpme.org breaks down how the paper edited stories to erase Israeli occupation and frame Palestinians as terrorists.
Jason Toney from @cjpme.org breaks down how the paper edited stories to erase Israeli occupation and frame Palestinians as terrorists.
National Post quietly rewrote wire stories to push pro-Israel narrative, analysis finds ⋆ The Breach
The newspaper modified nearly 200 wire stories from The Canadian Press to tilt the coverage in Israel’s favour
breachmedia.ca
June 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The National Post is significantly editing Canadian Press copy, without notifying the reader, to push a Zionist perspective and to portray Palestinians as terrorists. It's completely unethical and a breach of basic journalism standards. A new low for The National Post.
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We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book!
We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
June 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book!
We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! 💜
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"oh, this time of great suffering will produce great art"
no it fucking won't, it'll mean artists spend all their creative energy on "how do I pay for food this week"
no it fucking won't, it'll mean artists spend all their creative energy on "how do I pay for food this week"
every artist i know is like "fuck i don't have time to Make Art i'm busy trying to Survive" and it's fucked
June 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"oh, this time of great suffering will produce great art"
no it fucking won't, it'll mean artists spend all their creative energy on "how do I pay for food this week"
no it fucking won't, it'll mean artists spend all their creative energy on "how do I pay for food this week"